Evaluating Practice Sixth Edition continues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available. Focusing on single-system designs,Evaluating Practice,6/epresents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation. It is specifically written for students and practitioners in all the human services, including social work, psychology, counseling, nursing and psychiatry. Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts for bringing clarity to evaluation procedures,Evaluating Practicecomes with a free CD-ROM featuring numerous programs, including the innovative SINGWIN program for analyzing data (created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Lehman College of the City University of New York, the CASS and CAAP programs (created by Walter Hudson) for managing cases and scoring scales and Microsoftcopy; Excel workbooks and interactive exercises.

Preface Prologue Part I What Are You Getting Into?

1 Integrating Evaluation and Practice Introduction to Single-System Designs What Are Single-System Designs? Evidence-Based Practice Single-System Designs and Classical Research: The Knowledge-Building Context Single-System Evaluation, Qualitative Research, and Quantitative Research Advantages of Using Single-System Designs in Practice A Walk through the Evaluation Process Summary

Part II Conceptualizing and Measuring Targets and Objectives/Goals

2 Basic Principles of Conceptualization and Measurement Introduction What Is Conceptualization? What Is Measurement? Definition as a First Step in Measurement Can Everything Be Measured? Key Characteristics of All Measures Summary

Evaluating Practice Sixth Edition continues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available. Focusing on single-system designs,Evaluating Practice,6/epresents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation. It is specifically written for students and practitioners in all the human services, including social work, psychology, counseling, nursing and psychiatry. Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts for bringing clarity to evaluation procedures,Evaluating Practicecomes with a free CD-ROM featuring numerous programs, including the innovative SINGWIN program for analyzing data (created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Lehman College of the City University of New York, the CASS and CAAP programs (created by Walter Hudson) for managing cases and scoring scales and Microsoftcopy; Excel workbooks and interactive exercises.

Table of Contents

Preface Prologue Part I What Are You Getting Into?

1 Integrating Evaluation and Practice Introduction to Single-System Designs What Are Single-System Designs? Evidence-Based Practice Single-System Designs and Classical Research: The Knowledge-Building Context Single-System Evaluation, Qualitative Research, and Quantitative Research Advantages of Using Single-System Designs in Practice A Walk through the Evaluation Process Summary

Part II Conceptualizing and Measuring Targets and Objectives/Goals

2 Basic Principles of Conceptualization and Measurement Introduction What Is Conceptualization? What Is Measurement? Definition as a First Step in Measurement Can Everything Be Measured? Key Characteristics of All Measures Summary